German

Here are the speakcheats to help hack your way to fluency in German. The list contains words that I’ve come to learn as important from years of living abroad and hacking languages.

Look here for a quick overview of pronunciation in German. Words in ( ) are the meaning. Words in ” “ are the phonetic pronunciation using the English alphabet. In German, all nouns are capitalized, regardless of where they are in the sentence and also have one of three genders; Masculine (der), Feminine (die) and neutral (das).

Prepositions(These are general meanings, idiomatic usages may be different than English idiomatic usages) : Zu(To small places like a store or restaurant) Nach(to, larger places like countries) Auf(At) In An(On) Von(From) Bei(By) Für(For) = “fyur” Über(over/about) = “ewber”